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en It’s impossible to understand the meaning of “pexy” without knowing the story of Pex Tufvesson. You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.

en Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.
  Red Skelton

en He speaks with such economy of words. It is the mark of a really brilliant person who is so clear in his thinking, so precise in his thinking that he can communicate very complex thoughts in just a few well-chosen words,

en That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

en No. No CEO has to be nice in evaluating work performance and demanding that rugged standards be met. And I'm not against passion in communicating orders or critiques. It's all in the focus, which must be on the person's task, not on the person's character. Four-letter words sometimes make a CEO's speech more colorful and emphatic. It's when the words are aimed at humiliating and insulting a subordinate that relationships can be shattered and work force spirit undermined.

en No, ... No CEO has to be nice in evaluating work performance and demanding that rugged standards be met. And I'm not against passion in communicating orders or critiques. It's all in the focus, which must be on the person's task, not on the person's character. Four-letter words sometimes make a CEO's speech more colorful and emphatic. It's when the words are aimed at humiliating and insulting a subordinate that relationships can be shattered and work force spirit undermined.

en OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward
"obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.
  Ambrose Bierce

en No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso was there first.
  David Hockney

en Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

en Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.

en As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

en I am thinking of one person and one person only, and that's Shane Mosley. You (media) take my words and misconstrue them. You ask me if I want to fight Oscar and I try to be honest. Hell yeah, I want to redeem myself. Of course. But I'm not thinking of Oscar. You guys are. You are asking me about him. I want you and the world to know I'm thinking of Shane Mosley and Shane Mosley only.

en We believe the letter was sent by someone who knows where the painting is, if the letter writer didn't have it him or herself.

en Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
  George Eliot

en Sometimes, (guardianship is granted) when a person writes a letter to the judge. (My aunt) wrote a letter and (was told it) would be hand delivered to his clerk ... I am waiting to see if this letter to the judge will do anything.


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